Characterization of Mal'akh

     In the book, the charcter who refers to himself as Mal'akh has a very mysterious past and is very complex, indeed. We start out the book knowing next to nothing about him, yet as his scheme in the book progressess, so does our nunderstanding of his "past-life" and his new mission. He considers himself to have been reborn in Soganlik Prison (a Turkish prison). It is in this place that his plan to become a new man began.
    
     "The vast fortune belonging to Zachary Solomon had all been moved to an untraceable numbered account. Inmate 37 was a free man again-a free man with a massive fortune... There was nothing money couldn't buy- new identities, new passports, new hope. He chose a Greek name- Andros Dareios- Andros meaning "warrior", and Dareios meaning "wealthy"... 'I am Reborn',"

     "As the years passed, however... he felt as empty as he had in that Turkish prison,"

     Mal'akh still felt as though there was something still missing from his life. The initial "high" of his new-found money had begun to wear off and he was now facing whatever lay ahead. One day however, he remembered the stories that Zachary Solomon had told about  mysterious pyramid.

     "...Zachary Solomon-although long dead-still had something to offer"
    
     This entails how he changed throughout the begining of the book, and how he came upon his means to hold Peter Solomon ransom for the answers that would lead him tp the Ancient Mysteries. He took on the identity of Mal'akh after the night he attempted to rob the Solomon estate of the fabled Pyramid, and was shot by none other than Peter Solomon himself. That encounter only intensified Mal'akh's hatred towards Peter, which then led to the entire scheme he hatched which involved Langdon breaking the code to find the way to the Ancient Mysteries, and then taking them into his own knowledge. This proves how Mal'akh's personal characterization has GREATLY advanced the plot of the book.